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Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic

KEUSCHER, T. KONEČNÁ, Z.

Original Title

Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Implicit Theories about leader and follower or about leadership attributes and contexts are important to understand managerial leadership processes. In our attempt to understand leadership behaviours in Central and East European Countries (CEE), we address a widely neglected aspect of management behaviour in countries of transition. Conclusions With a closer look we can see that the factor in the German sample was dominate by the collaborative team orientation, which partly expressed participative behaviour either. On the contrary, to the GLOBE results, the administratively competent behaviour was found to be part of the German understanding of a transformational leader. The GLOBE methodology with its pre-defined factors and dimensions may have been an obstacle for the further in-depth analysis. The results for participative leadership have to consider this fact. If we take a closer look at notion of collaborative team orientation, which may indicate for some higher expectations towards participative leadership within the German sample. A Human orientation had the highest rating in the Czech sample and seemed to build a counterpoint to the strong focus on performance orientations and decisiveness. Finally yet importantly, the results for autonomous behaviour came close to the GLOBE results with the highest share for the Czech sample and close to the German sample.

Keywords

leadership; implicit leadership theories; CEE countries

Authors

KEUSCHER, T.; KONEČNÁ, Z.

Released

30. 4. 2019

Publisher

VUT

Location

Brno

Pages from

117

Pages to

128

Pages count

12

URL

https://www.academia.edu/112763642/Leadership_Metaphors_as_expressions_of_Implicit_Leadership_Theories_in_Germany_and_the_Czech_Republic

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT187712,
  author="Thierry {Keuscher} and Zdeňka {Konečná}",
  title="Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic",
  year="2019",
  pages="117--128",
  publisher="VUT",
  address="Brno",
  url="https://www.academia.edu/112763642/Leadership_Metaphors_as_expressions_of_Implicit_Leadership_Theories_in_Germany_and_the_Czech_Republic"
}